Georg Meyer (engineer)
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Georg Meyer (born February 22, 1834 in Einbeck ; † July 5, 1905 in Hanover ) was a German railway engineer and university professor.
Life
Georg Meyer taught as a railway machine master from 1876 at the Gewerbeakademie Berlin the subject railway engineering and at the Berlin Bauakademie for the master builder training the subjects railway operation and signaling and construction machinery and railway equipment . With the amalgamation of the two institutes to form the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg , he became professor for mechanical engineering in the railway sector in 1879. From 1881 to 1882, 1886 to 1887 and 1894 to 1895 he was head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. From 1887 to 1888 he was rector of the technical university.
In 1881 Meyer became a member of the board of trustees of the newly founded railway museum, which he headed from 1886 until his retirement in 1901. In 1881 he was one of the founding members of the Association of German Machine Engineers . He was a member of the Imperial Patent Office . Meyer wrote the multi-volume standard work Basics of Railway Mechanical Engineering .
Works
- Main features of railway engineering 1, The Locomotives, 1883
- Basics of Railway Machine Construction 2, The Railway Carriages, 1884
- Basics of railway engineering 3, track crossings, avoidance, centralization and securing of points and signals, turntables, transfer platforms, mechanical systems of the water stations, 1886
- Basic features of railway machine construction 4, equipment for branch lines, small railways and other newer transport facilities, 1892
- Construction of the car brakes, 1890
Web links
- Georg Meyer (1834-1905) on universitätssammlungen.de
- Collection for railway machine construction and operation or transport machinery on universitätssammlungen.de
- Development of the railway system at the TU Berlin on www.railways.tu-berlin.de
- Rector's offices of the Technical University of Berlin on historical-kommission-muenchen-edUNGEN.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 2nd year 1881, No. 12 (from June 18, 1881) , p. 111
- ↑ Anniversary publication of the German Machine Technology Society 1881 - 1931
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| SURNAME | Meyer, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German railway engineer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Einbeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 5, 1905 |
| Place of death | Hanover |